RE: Canning meats?
Leehop,I process my deer with minimal bone cutting,generally just splitting the pelvis,and cutting the rear hind quarters away.Much of the CWD is thought to be transfered by cutting into the spinal collumn,and handling the brain per se.I don't worry about it,they have found it in some areas here in northern Illinois.There is a video out made by a guy named Bill Helsgrave,he is a butcher from Wisconsin in an area with a large number of deer thought to have CWD,he shows how to fillet deer and not cut any bone.It is an interesting video that can be purchased at Gander mountain .